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[Australia] Auspost halt on incoming items by sea
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Whales:
https://auspost.com.au/service-updates/international-service-updates

Apparently I'm a week late to the party.  It's going to be interesting to see this play out.

I have several items outstanding from Aliexpress & eBay.  I wonder if they'll get rerouted to airmail or not (depends who is footing the bill of storing it in transit I guess).
Black Phoenix:

--- Quote --- This is due to the increasing number of prohibited items coming into Australia by sea.
--- End quote ---

I would be interested in knowing what kind of items they are talking about.
SmallCog:

--- Quote ---Australia Post said that it would process any sea mail containers which had already arrived in the country, as well as any items which were currently en route via sea.
--- End quote ---

https://www.news.com.au/national/australia-post-suspends-sea-mail-amid-prohibited-item-concerns/news-story/1ee350bb63a8ec8ffd553e604e04c6b3] [url]https://www.news.com.au/national/australia-post-suspends-sea-mail-amid-prohibited-item-concerns/news-story/1ee350bb63a8ec8ffd553e604e04c6b3[/url]

Anything outstanding should turn up eventually

Seems reading between the lines they can’t keep up with the screening so they’ve turned the tap off

Most mail is by air anyway

Whales:
Speculation:

A scatter of Auspost workers try to get to their sorting machines, but no packages are flowing into them.  Everything is blocked at the other end of the room where the burly ABF offices are murmuring sounds of disappointment and shaking their heads.

"What sort of things are you guys finding today?" asks one particularly skinny Auspost worker.
"PROHIBITED ITEMS" grunts the ABF employee holding an assault rifle.  He points it at the packages and growls.
"So what sort of stuff?"
"PROHIBITED ITEMS"
"Drugs?  Guns?  Lasers?"
"PROHIBITED ITEMS"
SiliconWizard:
That's a good one. Very clever. :-DD
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